Sunday, March 22, 2015

One of the most interesting areas of conspiracy theory is the possibility of the planting of false information by government authorities, for motives including confusing or embarrassing the conspiracy theorists, promoting government-sponsored conspiracy theories, or entrapment.

"Is Matt DeHart Being Prosecuted Because FBI Investigated CIA for the Anthrax Leak?":

". . . there’s something odd about how this was allegedly leaked.
According to Buzzfeed, the anthrax investigation came in one
unencrypted folder with the ag document and a document on drone
targeting the source of which he thinks he knows (it would like have
been a former colleague from the ANG).
How would it ever be possible that the same person would have access
to all three of those things? While it’s possible the ag admission ended
up in the government, even a DOJ investigation into such an admission
would be in a different place than the FBI anthrax investigation, and
both should be inaccessible to the ANG people working on SIPRNet.
That is, this feels like the Laptop of Death,
which included all the documents you’d want to argue that Iran had an
active and advanced nuclear weapons program, but which almost certainly
would never all end up on the same laptop at the same time.
And, given DeHart’s belief reported elsewhere this was destined for WikiLeaks, I can’t help but remember the Defense Intelligence Agency report which noted that WikiLeaks might be susceptible to disinformation (not to mention the HB Gary plot to discredit WikiLeaks, but that came later).

This raises the possibility that the Wikileaks.org Web
site could be used to post fabricated information; to post
misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda; or to conduct perception
management and influence operations designed to convey a negative
message to those who view or retrieve information from the Web site

That is, given how unlikely it would be to find these juicy subjects
all together in one folder, I do wonder whether they’re all authentic
(though DeHart would presumably be able to assess the authenticity of
the drone targeting documents)."

Unlike World Hero Guccifer, DeHart didn't go looking for this stuff - it just appeared one day on his secret server. There is an explanation in the BuzzFeed article for why he wasn't suspicious at the combination of information:

"Matt says he thought of his fellow airmen, some of whom knew about the
Shell. “I’m not going to say who I think it was, but there was a lot of
dissatisfaction in my unit about cooperating with the CIA,” he says.
Intelligence analysts with the proper clearance (such as Manning and
others) had access to a deep trove of sensitive data on the Secret
Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet, the classified computer
network used by both the Defense and State departments."

Thus, this could be:

a completely legitimate and accurate compilation of various files assembled by someone with enough of a security clearance - and the Manning case shows that the complexities of the American classification system, a symptom of trying to juggle so many secrets while allowing access to the secrets by some in government, is a mess;

a mix of true and false data, either by a mistake by the leaker, or an intentional government trick; or

the planting of completely false information by the government or some private trickster.

I wouldn't put the CIA high on the list of suspects for the anthrax attacks, but we know it is one of the jobs of the CIA to take the fall for various discovered wrongdoings by other parts of the American government (and never forget the obvious Zionist component to the anthrax conspiracy).

One of the most interesting areas of conspiracy theory is the possibility of the planting of false information by government authorities, for motives including confusing or embarrassing the conspiracy theorists, promoting government-sponsored conspiracy theories, or entrapment.

"Is Matt DeHart Being Prosecuted Because FBI Investigated CIA for the Anthrax Leak?":

". . . there’s something odd about how this was allegedly leaked.
According to Buzzfeed, the anthrax investigation came in one
unencrypted folder with the ag document and a document on drone
targeting the source of which he thinks he knows (it would like have
been a former colleague from the ANG).
How would it ever be possible that the same person would have access
to all three of those things? While it’s possible the ag admission ended
up in the government, even a DOJ investigation into such an admission
would be in a different place than the FBI anthrax investigation, and
both should be inaccessible to the ANG people working on SIPRNet.
That is, this feels like the Laptop of Death,
which included all the documents you’d want to argue that Iran had an
active and advanced nuclear weapons program, but which almost certainly
would never all end up on the same laptop at the same time.
And, given DeHart’s belief reported elsewhere this was destined for WikiLeaks, I can’t help but remember the Defense Intelligence Agency report which noted that WikiLeaks might be susceptible to disinformation (not to mention the HB Gary plot to discredit WikiLeaks, but that came later).

This raises the possibility that the Wikileaks.org Web
site could be used to post fabricated information; to post
misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda; or to conduct perception
management and influence operations designed to convey a negative
message to those who view or retrieve information from the Web site

That is, given how unlikely it would be to find these juicy subjects
all together in one folder, I do wonder whether they’re all authentic
(though DeHart would presumably be able to assess the authenticity of
the drone targeting documents)."

Unlike World Hero Guccifer, DeHart didn't go looking for this stuff - it just appeared one day on his secret server. There is an explanation in the BuzzFeed article for why he wasn't suspicious at the combination of information:

"Matt says he thought of his fellow airmen, some of whom knew about the
Shell. “I’m not going to say who I think it was, but there was a lot of
dissatisfaction in my unit about cooperating with the CIA,” he says.
Intelligence analysts with the proper clearance (such as Manning and
others) had access to a deep trove of sensitive data on the Secret
Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet, the classified computer
network used by both the Defense and State departments."

Thus, this could be:

a completely legitimate and accurate compilation of various files assembled by someone with enough of a security clearance - and the Manning case shows that the complexities of the American classification system, a symptom of trying to juggle so many secrets while allowing access to the secrets by some in government, is a mess;

a mix of true and false data, either by a mistake by the leaker, or an intentional government trick; or

the planting of completely false information by the government or some private trickster.

I wouldn't put the CIA high on the list of suspects for the anthrax attacks, but we know it is one of the jobs of the CIA to take the fall for various discovered wrongdoings by other parts of the American government (and never forget the obvious Zionist component to the anthrax conspiracy).